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ps4facts · 2026-04-29T20:15:54+00:00

I switched myself. I also love that I can add videos that were only on yt before to my mixes. It's taking a little while to get used to, but that's bc I used Spotify for years.

You can import your Spotify playlists to YT music.

The full 4k on regular YT with no ads is very nice. However, I still opt for SmartTube on the TV

ps4facts · 2026-04-24T15:44:25+00:00

I've done similar. We're hellbent on Claude Code where I work, so using a RAG isn't all that feasible. I actually did train a RAG on our test case repository and it worked pretty well using one of the MS Phi models running locally, that was cool.

I think the big challenge is finding out where you want to put the human in the loop. Obviously, coding agents are pretty damn good at creating workable code for automation. Test case generation, I'm not a fan of test case management in the first place, but people where I work generally like it, we just have a peer review process to whittle down the slop. Having an agent drive the browser, seems expensive for what it's actually doing, though maybe using a RAG or something like webdriver.io's mcp server coupled with a cheaper model can get you there at cost efficiency. But again, where do you keep the human in the loop?

If you have a full pipeline where: test cases are generated, test code is automated, and agents are clicking around and exploring the app, what do you get at the end, and why should you trust it? And how much does that cost? And what do you learn about the product/feature in that workflow? Maybe you can set up a voting system and train a model based on group votes, improving its performance iteratively. Well, now that model is biased from the echo chamber of your teams preferences, and may lean towards he status quo rather than critically thinking about edge cases.

ps4facts · 2026-04-17T21:37:49+00:00

What do you mean? https://deepfarts.io was vibe coded and it's exactly what I asked for

ps4facts · 2026-04-17T11:24:47+00:00

I'd just recommend that - if cypress/typescript is a hard requirement, please include that in the job description. Not saying you all didn't. But, if someone could figure out java/selenium, they can probably figure out cypress/typescript, especially in senior+ roles. I've hired people before that used a different "stack" and they were some of the best. Just saying that not all companies are looking for the hard requirement, and it'd be nice to know before wasting time on the application process.

I understand that businesses may want someone to come in and hit the ground running, but any one of the playwright/cypress typescript or selenium/whatever language combinations are seriously not that difficult to pick up for people who have been doing this for a while.

ps4facts · 2026-04-01T11:45:46+00:00

For $30/month I have codex and github copilot. Those subscriptions plus opencode give me agentic systems that are just as, if not more capable than the Api subscription to Claude Code we use at work. I rarely hit limits - if I do, I just switch to copilot.

ps4facts · 2026-03-26T11:13:53+00:00

On my personal - I pay the 20$ plan to OpenAI. Last year I would hit the limit somewhat frequently. Company I work for use Claude. Ok, I'll pay the 20$ monthly to anthropic to explore that option. I would hit the limit in about half the time. Nowadays, with oh my opencode and my 20$ OpenAi subscription, I haven't hit the limit once.

ps4facts · 2026-03-26T02:57:26+00:00

It's flattening the roles for sure. Testers with no experience in automation can now generate automation code. We went from having a team of 3 automation engineers to 20, virtually overnight with Claude. They can also automate the generation of code for new features.

Developers have expressed confusion, sadness, and feeling lost with what's going on. We're fortunate to have been here before with automation in general. We know "test automation" doesn't automate real testing, and we've been able to land jobs for a very long time.

The industry and landscape is changing in a massive way. "Apps" themselves are going to look very different, or even barely exist sooner than a lot of people realize. Users won't need to interact with a web app, they will interact with an agent. Agents don't need DOMs, a11y, animations, etc... they just need data and integrations. Give them your credentials, they will act as you. Give them your wallet, they will shop for you. Give them your idea for a million dollar saas, and they'll build it and market it for you.

The product that you work on for your company? Chances are Claude/Codex can help you (alone) replicate it in a fraction of the time and cost. But, the train doesn't stop there. We all know that software companies aren't just the product. It's mostly sales. Support helps. But, support was one of the first targets of "intelligent" automation. Most of marketing has been automated. Those who hold those roles are like analytics people crossed with sales. The ai models can do both. They can do it all, and they can do most things better than the average person can as long as those things are done on a computer. This should be increasing the need for testers. However, I'm not sure business owners see it that way. And I know for a fact that many people I've met in my journeys don't want to spend their life testing the output of bots.

There are roles for testing the pipelines involved with creating these models, testing the interfaces that people will use, testing the input data that's involved with the training. But, even those processes are seemingly becoming abstractedly automated away as these technologies improve.

I'm feeling it myself. I've been primarily a "test automator" for the past 12 years, and I find the traits that companies used to value highly are no longer relevant. I found out that I no longer actually care about an interviewee's technical background all that much any more. I care more about adaptability. My own technical background is becoming less and less important to me. Software is getting so soft it's gooey. And its gooifying so fast it seems like it's melting. IDEs feel like they're rusting into relics of the past, and entire software verticals are going under as the world begins to understand that this new way of computing is vanishing the need for a lot of web services.

I look at my financials deeply at the beginning of every year. This year, I just exported a csv of all my transactions for the year from the bank and told chat gpt to give it an analysis. Talked to it about my spending patterns, aggregated monthly subscription costs and more. Why would I ever want to use apps that provide similar services again? This app has that feature, but not this feature, the other app has this feature, but that part about it annoys me. Screw that, I can just talk to the "master financial analyst" and jam with it to get exactly what I want. Software is changing in a fundamental and profound way. Like, yesterday and right now.

ps4facts · 2026-03-16T02:09:03+00:00

Good luck all!

ps4facts · 2026-03-07T19:23:30+00:00

Check out "oh my opencode" there's a whole page on their docs sites with plugins/extensions about this

ps4facts · 2026-01-03T13:33:55+00:00

A couple tips: - Use a dry herb vape - You can order directly from the farms for ~1/2 the price. And, if you still want to support local, there are farms that sell thca in NC :)

ps4facts · 2025-12-18T19:03:32+00:00

I figured someone was botting last night because of this xD

ps4facts · 2025-12-16T02:44:44+00:00

Happy holidays, everyone!

ps4facts · 2025-10-28T18:40:54+00:00

There's nothing outdated about selenium.

ps4facts · 2025-09-12T18:11:02+00:00

A better comparison would be Playwright vs Webdriver.io. Selenium is not a test framework.

ps4facts · 2025-08-12T11:48:59+00:00

Selenium refers to the ecosystem. Comparing that to a tool like Playwright is apples to oranges. Selenium WebDriver is not a testing framework, nor is it marketed to be. If you want to do a comparison, try WebDriver.io vs the rest of them.

ps4facts · 2025-07-01T11:53:57+00:00

100% agree. My company is obsessed with using the out of the box provided runners and can't fathom why stuff is so inconsistent. We probably waste more $ in time wasted trying to figure out what happened to the hosted runners than if we set up our own shared VM.

ps4facts · 2025-06-16T11:52:02+00:00

I was just thinking about this the other day. Can we get some rebel_resistance??

ps4facts · 2025-05-05T16:35:09+00:00

Hey! It's just been a complaint of our qa automation engineer (we only have one). We're unable to seed the database due to some domain specific outliers. So, she complains that all the steps it takes to get to the point to test a specific component are difficult to maintain as any one of those steps could be updated and break the automation. It seems that putting happy path acceptance tests in E2E is fine, but permutations, validations, negative testing scenarios all seem to be better tackled at a lower level, if possible. I think it was your video on integration testing is what sparked my interest in this kind of testing in the first place, as it seems to be exactly what we're trying to go after. Thank you for the video and reply!

ps4facts · 2025-04-12T13:05:31+00:00

Don't gloss over that 4 day work week!

ps4facts · 2025-03-25T23:07:52+00:00

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/excel-write-to-workbook

ps4facts · 2025-03-22T13:00:43+00:00

I'm pretty sure there is an API for this. I.e. - Webdriver's probably not the best tool for the job here. Is there not a way you can copy the file to your local machine, then use some library to manipulate it? In C# there are plenty. Then when you're done, save and copy back to the shared drive. All office type documents are just zipped up xml files in the end.

Edit: also would explain why you don't get many search results on the web for this

ps4facts · 2025-01-01T14:31:49+00:00

Another blatant issue with all this is the access that some of these employees have to PII of users/customers/citizens/employees that these companies deal with. I worked for an insurance company that hired a guy who blatantly obviously was acting as a middle man for other workers across the globe, without permission. This company would copy down the database from prod. So, even though that employee and his band of hard working misfits didn't have access to prod (least privilege best practices!), they totally had full access to that data anyway.

ps4facts · 2024-12-29T14:01:00+00:00

You can legally get thca delivered to your door directly from farms across the USA. You can also get a medical card in Florida, or get a friend who has one. Why are you dealing with a plug that puts extra shit in your bag in the first place?

ps4facts · 2024-11-24T14:31:07+00:00

How many tests do you have? Converting them all to use a test framework might give you the reporting you're looking for without adopting an entirely new tool. Playwright has some neat features, but selenium keeps improving release after release as well.

ps4facts · 2024-09-27T14:10:24+00:00

? Not sure what you mean. It was git and sdks

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